Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
HOPE AND A HOME
HOPE AND A HOME (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,496,045 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($401,881). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $-804609
What Hope and a Home does
Mission
Hope and a Home's mission is to empower low-income families with children in washington, dc, to create stable homes of their own and to make lasting changes in their lives. We can and do break the cycle of poverty for qualified families through the programs and services we offer. Since its inception, Hope and a Home has helped hundreds of families achieve lasting independence. Our comprehensive empowerment model for creating sustainable change within families focuses on four main keys for change: 1) affordable housing; 2) rewarding work; 3) higher education;4) valuable community connections.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Housing program:phase I transitional housing: Hope and a Home owns 19 transitional housing units. We worked with the community partnership for the prevention of homelessness in fy2025 to fill our unit vacancies with families from local shelters. In fy2025, we provided 21 homeless families with highly subsidized transitional housing units, which they may inhabit for up to three years. During their residency, families secure employment, enroll their children in day care and good-performing schools, gain housing and financial literacy skills -- while addressing their personal barriers to success and independence. By graduation, parents are prepared to secure affordable housing - which sometimes means becoming owners of cooperatives or other housing.phase 2 independent housing: after three years in transitional, housing families in phase 2 live independently, yet continue to receive personalized case management on a monthly basis to maintain their homes and achieve their goals - which can range from continuing education and career prospects to purchasing a home. Phase 2 families that move into market-rate housing receive up to $300/month for rental assistance in their first year out…
$794,573 spent$513,588 earned by the program66% of program spendingEducation and job readiness programs:education:families in both phase one and phase two participate in the grace dickerson higher education for all (gdhefa). Gdhefa keeps the 137 low-income children we currently serve on a clear academic track from preschool to college and beyond, while enrolling parents in career-boosting educational and vocational courses. Staff advocates for each child to be enrolled in good-performing schools, work with parents to establish and achieve educational goals for their children, ensure children with special needs are properly diagnosed and receive individual education programs (iep's) as needed, and arrange tutoring services. We also support participants through pre-k to 12th grade, college, and graduate school to ensure they achieve post-secondary goals.job readiness: earning a living wage is fundamental to moving families to self sufficiency. Our job readiness program works with parents and teens to improve their job readiness and increase their earning potential. It provides a series of individual counseling sessions and workshops that promote self discovery and skill development. Session topics cover goals setting, resume preparation,…
$340,531 spentof which $38,342 as grants28% of program spendingFood program:we provided groceries monthly to 68 families during fy2025. Deliveries were comprised of fresh healthy food including fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, bread, cereal, milk. The food was purchased directly from wholesale food suppliers who delivered the food directly to Hope and a Home - after which we bagged it for pick-up or delivery to our families.
$72,379 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,207,483.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.5M to $2.2M (−11%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 1% · 2021 9% · 2022 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lynn C French
Executive director
Board chair
Oral D Pottinger
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $247k → $273k.
8 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HOPE AND A HOME’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HOPE AND A HOME has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
37% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HOPE AND A HOME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 27% · 2019 26% · 2020 21% · 2021 19% · 2022 29% · 2023 18% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
48% of HOPE AND A HOME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
HOPE AND A HOME draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $583k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like HOPE AND A HOME
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HOPE AND A HOME: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOPE AND A HOME?
- HOPE AND A HOME (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,496,045 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($401,881). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOPE AND A HOME have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $2,496,045 in grants to HOPE AND A HOME, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOPE AND A HOME?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $401,881 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOPE AND A HOME find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 43 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing